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oman's Club Elects Ten New Officers Blretion Held at Last R~ular Mttting: Horace Bridges Gtvts Afternoon Ltcture Officers for the coming club year were elected at the meeting of the Woman's club of Wilmette, on Wednesday afternoon, April 18. Mrs. Charles R. Bixby was elected second vice-president; Mrs. Jesse B Denman, third vice-president; Mrs. Raymond A. Wheelock, corresponding secretary; Jlrs. Arthur J. Dixon, treasurer; Mrs. ]. Melville Brown, chairman of the literature department ; Mrs. GQrdon · Wilson, chairman of the art department; Mrs. Elliot V. Youngberg, chairman of the· civics department ; Mrs. Edmond M. Simonds, chairman of the program committee; Mrs. Alvin E. Beirnes. chairman of the social committe~: and Mrs. C. P. Berg, chairman of the house committee. Reports of officers and chairmen of departments were heard, showing a busy and profitable club year. Horace Bridges. well known teacher and lecturer_, in a convincing and inspiring talk, pointed the way to "The Art of Renewing One's Youth." Mr. Bridges was concerned with the youth of the mind and the psychic energies, and not with physical renewal. We can retain, if we will, our mental youth. the verve a'nd elasticity of outlook that make our lives so interesting and fruitful. so precious to ourselves and others. he said. If these are lost. if they wane when the body ages and stales. they still can be renewed, can undergo a resurrection. The inner life of an individual can be renewed perhaps by the contagion of some big oersonality outside. A classical example Mr. Bridges gave was St. Paul, whose whole life was reversed and renewed when the reality and truth of Christ came into his experience. This is a purelv natural thing that may occur in the experiences of others, .he said. for many men have been stimulated hy the great versonalities of Lincoln. Roosevelt. and others. Mr. Brid2f'S does not believe that at the a~ee of JO or 40 man is a walkiag bundle of habits. that his character is set. like hardened plaster. He is convinct-d that this business of repetition of habits permanently binding one to follow the same flroove a~ain and ..rain. has b«"en radicallv misunderstood. So-called bad habits keeo people under their tyranny mainly because. through auto-suggestion. they fear they cannot be overcome. A resolute assertion of the will, he said, will enable anyone to break through this tJnnny. Ninety percent of us. he taicl, think we cannot do what we cannot do because we think we cannot do it. Atrophy of the mind is a totally unnecessary tragedy in middJ.- life. he contended. Inertia of the. will can br prevented by the regular exercise of that particular power. and by a change of mental environme11t, or a new stimulus to the wi11. Bv keepincr the brain moderatelv exerci~ed. a person wiD be vouncrer. ·better disciplined. and better ah1e to do 11lPntal ~ervice. at th,. -ap of SO than at tS, and better at 65 tlaan at 50. Keeo the euriositv of the ehi1cl. he said: loo1c uoon the world ~erv momin.r a~ unon a new olanet: ntaia the power of seeintr thinsrs in t~ ·freshnf"f'S and tfot as !lnmethinv ......_. bv tit,. concr=-JinCf mass of iliaritv. If vo·t find vonr mind ........,....., prove its youth thi5 sum- ._ ' Over fifty organizatio~s devoted to Women,· Cluba Now · ,. Sponaor Exhibit of Well-Equipped Homea - r_ _ _ househ~ld and h~emakmg comforts, conve~aences ah!'b~t ·mpfrovemthents, ealrle preparang ex 1 1 s or e w equipped home exposition of the Illinois Federation of Woman's clubs to be held at the Stevens ·hotel May 14 to 18, according to an official announcement made by the federation today. . M rs. J . Marc F'l\V Ier, ch aarm:Jr. of the federation's well-equipped home committee, announced that special educational exhibits will be shown by the _National D~iry counc~l, American Instttute of Bakn~g, Am~r1can Art bureau, Better Beddmg All1ance of America, University of Illinois, University of Chicago. Chicago Better Business burenu, Chicago Association of Commerce, and the gas. electricity and telephone utility companies of the Chicago area. .. . Novel features of the e~pos~t!on will be ~ ll}od_el. bungalow, chatrs adJustable to f1t md1vtdual m~mbers of the household, a demonstra.tton of how r!lg rugs are made from dtscard~d cl.otlung and a vacuu!n brush wh1ch 1s a vestpocket Size .v~cu~ cleaner. . . Th~ exp~s1t1on 1s to be ~eld m conJUnction · With the federation's thirtythird annual convention and climaxes a fo~r-~onths' intensive "better homes dr1ve based on the results of a two-years' state-wide survey of living conditions in Illinois homes. Proceeds are to be turned over to the federation's endowment fund for furtherance of the club women's work. Invite Public to Attend N ;gbt School n·oduct:on The .s~hool for adul~ foreigners will close 1ts second year s work with a play s~owing some of the ridiculous happemngs in a naturalization court. The play, entitled "Naturalization" will be given at 8:15 o'Clock, Tuesday, May I, at the Woman's club of Wilmette. It is free to the public. All who are interested in the work of the school are cordially invited to attend. The program is as follows : I. Chorus, "America the Beautiful" · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · ....... . . School II. Song, uDer Lindenbaum" ..... .. ........ - . . . ........ German Group III. "Langton till Landet" .... . .. . · · · · · · .. · ... -. ....... Swedish Group IV. Play "Naturalization" Scene 1 Office of Clerk of a Circuit Court-1916 . Scene 2 Office of Clerk of a Circuit Court-1922 Scene 3 Office of same clerk ninety days later Chorus, "Star Spangled ·Banner" ... · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · . - .. -. · . . . . · . . School Salute to the Flag .. .. ........ School The parts in the play are all taken by pupils in the school. TO HOLD ANNUAL MEETING The annu~l meeting of the Woman'!' society of the Wilmette Baptist church will ~ring its members together for a luncheon and program on Thursday, May 3. mer by taking up a new language, he challenged, or get actively interested in a new science or a new art. In concluding, he suaested that one never cease studying, that one "should follow knowledge like a sinking star beyond the utmost boundaries of human thought." · r· · <Contributed b;y Wllmelte Garden Clt~b > Grace Holverscbtid and Helelk And now comes the time of greatest Wing to Give Program of activity in garden circles, the months Music and Monologue of May and June, when o.t her clubs are closing their doors for the season. The annual lun. cheon of the WoTrips, gatden markets, meetings, com- man's Catholic dub of Wilmette will munity plantings flower shows open take place Tuesday, May 1, at 1 o'clock, gardens are weekly occurrences ' in the Marine dining room of the ' · Edgewater Beach hotel, with Mrs. of the Gard The1members b · Wilmette f h · Frank Oelerich, the retiring president, en c u are preparmg now or t elr presiding. second annual Garden market which, After the luncheon, Mrs. A. W. owing to the late season, has been Boylston, the new president, will inpostponed to Saturday, May 26. Wait troduce the members of the board of and buy your perennials of your own . directors. The honor guests of the club for garden club, for all of the proceeds that day will include Mrs. Harry from th.e sale are to be ~sed to beau- Gradle, president of the Tenth district : tlfr Wilmette. The chd~ren of the Mrs. George Mcintyre, president of Wilmette schools are .makmg. the post- the Big Sisters; Mrs. G. Schildgen, ers for. ~he market 10 a prtze ~ster president pf the North Shore Ca~holic compet~tl~!l· :rhe bes.t poste~s will ~e Woman's leaaue; Mrs. Maurice Lteber, 8 on exhtbltton m promment wmdows m · · the business se<:1ions of the village. parliamentarian of the Tenth dtstnct: Mrs. Edward Moore is again chairman and Miss Estelle Pahlman, president of the Garden Market and she and of Junior members. her committee already have made most Mrs. Frank Barry, social chairman, of their arrangements for May 26. and her committee will be in charge The market will be held on the same of the luncheon, with Mrs. Charles green where· it was held last year, on Hauber directing the program. Grace the grounds belonging to the North Holverscl}eid and Helen Wing will Shore line at the Wilmette Avenue sta- present a program of colorful and intion. Nurserymen will have perennials teresting songs, duets, and pianologues. potted plants, and evergreen shrub~ These young musicians are known for sale. The garden club members throughout the United States for their will contribute annuals, perennials, and presentation of programs developed to bulbs from their gardens. Garden a highly artistic degree. furniture and garden tools will be disHelen Wing iqterprets her original played for sale. Pottery bowls and music and verse and is widely known vases also will be on sale. through her contributions to Child Mrs. C. N. Hurlbut has returned Life, and otber ·magazines. from California and soon will have the Graee Holverscheid is a soprano of members at work getting wild plants note and has be'en heard in Chicago as for the community garden. One trip soloist with the Mendelssohn club. for that purpose is scheduled for Wed- Apollo Musical club, Swedish Choral nesday, May 9, when the members go society, and Marshall Field Choral to a woods that is soon to be sub- society. and has appeared in concert divided, near Lake Forest. The plants in leading cities both here and abroad. will be taken directly to the comAmon~ her songs, she will include munity garden and planted there. The ,.The Piper" by M i c h a e 1 Head : trip on May 19, to the dunes, is for the ,.Sketches of Paris," and that vivacious same purpose, to bring back plants song from the Russian, "The Sleigh," for the community garden from one "f by Kountz. the smaller dunes where. plant life H I w·mg,s paano · 1o~ues w1·11 1·n "dl · d" · e en . elude "The Yellow Hat,"- "Music Lesrapl Y ts IS~ppearmg. Mrs. Joh.n F: Weedon, who ts our · sons" and selections from her humorrepre~e'!tatlve m the .Paren~- Teacher ous ~ollection of "Familv Static." · assoc1at1on, and who 1s chatrman of its school beautiful committee, soon will be back from Texas to continue Delta Gamma Mothers her work on the grounds of the Stol_ p Sponsor ~'B',..··om T;me,, school. She also will act as chairman lv.o · of judges from our club in the Trib"Blossom Time." the partv to he given at the Delta Gamma house in une's annual garden contest. The club has been asked to do some Evanston Saturday, May S, is sponlandscaping on the grounds of the sored bv the Delta Gamma Mother's Public library. Mrs. Edward Scheid- association, of which the foUowing are enhelm is chairman of this committee officers and board members: Mrs. J. of the garden club. W. Meaker of Evanston, president: On May 4, the regular monthly Mrs. J. C. Widdington of Evanston, meetjng of the club occurs at the vice president; Mrs. Dwight L. Harris home of Mrs. B. E. Gage in Evanston. of Wilmette, secretary; and Mrs., H. F. The speaker will be Mrs. Kirkpatrick Cope of Evanston, treasurer; mt-mhPrs of the Elgin Garden club. Her sub- of the board-Mrs. P. L. Randall of Intfian Hi11. Mrs. H. T. Helmkamo of . F ject IS " rom a .Garden Notebook." Chicago, Mrs. Edwin. Hedrick of KenOn May 11, the members will spend ilworth and Mrs. H. w. Whitehead, an hpur in Mrs. G. F. Slaughter's Mrs. Marcus Stearns~ Mrs. Edward ·garden, 14M Ridge avenue, Evanston. Kimbark and Mrs. C. C. Fisher, of She will give an informal talk on her E t spring garden and also will tell about vans on. -------her experiences with the Evanston · Garden market. On May 25, the club MUSIC GROUP TO MEET wiD spend an hour with Mrs. ArmThe North Shore Musical society strong in her garden in Glencoe. will hold its next meetinJr Mondav afMav is a busy month for the prden ternoon, April 30, at 2 :15 o'clock, at club and June is just as active. July the Evanston Woman's · club. Mrs. and AUKUst are a little less strenuous. Alvene Resseguie, Mrs. Electa Austin, The other eight months seldom have and Mrs. Elizabeth English will be the more than one meeting a month. hostesses. . a_ar_d_en_T_at_Ju_ · ·___. · 0 . IAnnual Luncheon of Catholic Club May I